Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz is very fuzzy on the difference between price pooling and price averaging. Price pooling is an important part of our Wheat Board’s orderly marketing system that is often over looked.
Minister Ritz and some private brokers looking for business are fond of telling farmers that there will still be price pooling without the CWB but as John Morris shows this is not possible. Read these excerpts from his Manitoba Cooperator editorial explaining the difference between “price pooling” and “price averaging” to get the facts.
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